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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22506, 14 September 1938, Page 10

St. Mary’s Anglican Church, Addington, and the Selwyn street kindergarten, Spreydon, will each benefit by the will of the late Mr Isaac Robinson, of Christchurch, who died on August 17. The sums are £25 in each case, and are bequeathed to the institutions to be jsed “for the general purposes thereof.” Believed to be the first dispatch of mail made up in Auckland for the island, letters and parcels for Danger Island will be carried by the Matua when she leaves Auckland next week for Nukualofa, Apia, and Suva. Danger Island, which is the most isolated portion of the Cook Islands, is served at irregular intervals through the Post Office at Rarotonga, but on this occasion a connexion is available through a vessel from Suva. Otherwise known as Pukapuka. Danger Island is a dependency of New Zealand.

By using their strong, sharp beaks to cut the wires of their cage in the Invercargill gardens alongside the Puni creek the two keas which have been in captivity for nearly two years enjoyed an hour or two of liberty in'the sunshine, states the “Southland Daily News.” A householder in Eye street who went into the back garden to inspect the fowls Jbund that one of the 1 keas had invaded the run. The other bird showed a fondness for perambulator tyres and glasshouses. A woman who was wheeling a pram in a private garden was surprised to find an escort interested in the moving wheels, and who by continual peckings threatened to cut the rubber tyres to shreds. After a feed of rubber and some soliloquising at a distance, the bird made off, and was later found admiring the specimens in a glasshouse.